Stephen Sondheim

On last week’s Dress Circle, we played several instrumental pieces, and you kindly let us know that you liked to hear orchestral versions of musicals, so on this week’s program (12/8 7:00 p.m.), we’ll hear symphonic suites from five shows with which you are mostly likely familiar.

Many of us are making our preparations for Thanksgiving, and since the day of family, friends, eating, parades, and football is coming fast upon us, this week’s Dress Circle (11/24 7:00 p.m.) will offer some “turkeys’ for the holiday. Those turkeys are musicals that didn’t run more than ten performances on Broadway, many through no fault of their own.

It’s November, and that’s a terrifying thought. Before we rush head-long into the holidays, we’re going to be celebrating the shows that opened and are opening this month on this week’s Dress Circle (11/3 7:00 p.m.).

We’re heading off to Broadway on this week’s Dress Circle. That may seem a bit redundant, but we’re going to be looking at songs about Broadway from stage and screen musicals.

August is Happiness Happens month, and nothing makes us happier than a musical, so on this week’s Dress Circle (8/25 7:00 p.m.), we’re looking to fourteen songs about happiness from a variety of musicals.

We've combined the New York musical openings for July and August (for some reason) and arrived at a playlist of 11 shows spanning 153 years of Broadway history. We've also decided to turn to the overtures or opening orchestral pieces to give a fuller sense of these scores.

We're looking at 100 years of Broadway history on this week's Dress Circle as we look at some of the shows that opened in New York on this week's program. Our earliest show is "Step this Way" from 1916, and our most recent opening is the last musical to open in May, 2016's "Paramour" by Circque du Soliel.

We're looking at fourteen songs from shows that opened in New York in March that span 112 years of musical theatre history from "The Pink Lady" to the revival of "Sweeney Todd."

This is a program featuring 14 musicals that played between 1 and 12 performances on Broadway, so for a variety of reasons, these could be called turkeys. With that said, we're offering up these musical turkeys for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

This week's program looks at a variety of musicals and revues, once again, but this time they're small-scale works with casts ranging from one to four performers.